Chicken interleukin-21 is costimulatory for T cells and blocks maturation of dendritic cells

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 475-482

  Rothwell, Lisa ^a   Hu, Tuanjun ^a,b   Wu, Zhiguang ^a,b   Kaiser, Pete ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chicken; Cytokines; Dendritic cell; IL 21

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLUTAMINE; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN 21; RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DISULFIDE BOND; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80455168497     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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